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PERIOD OF TRANSITIONAL ENGLISH :

WRITINGS OF ENGLISHMEN IN LATIN AND IN FRENCH.

1. The English Language before and after the Norman Conquest.

-2. Writings in Latin and in French.-3. Chronicles. ·

4. William of Malmesbury. — 5. Geoffrey of Monmouth. — 6.

Wace.-7. A Group of Minor Chroniclers. 8. Ralph Higden.

9. Romances; Walter Map.-10. Other Romance-Writers.

-11. Sawulf.-12. Hilarius. - 13. Miracle-Plays and Mys-

teries.-14. Writers on Science; Athelard of Bath. - 15.

Alexander Neckham.-16. Roger Bacon.-17. Writers on

Law; Ralph Glanville; Henry of Bracton.-18. Religious

Discussion; English Debate concerning Authority.-19. Nigel

Wireker.-20. Robert Grosseteste.-21. Richard de Bury

WRITINGS IN THE ENGLISH OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD.

1. State of English Literature in this Period. -- 2. Layamon. — 3.

Orm.4. Nicholas of Guildford; Devotional and Moral Writ-

ings; Romances; Ancren Riwle.-5. Robert of Gloucester and

his Contemporaries.-6. Robert of Brunne.-7. Laurence

Minot.-8. Richard Rolle.-9. Dan Michel.-10. Ralph Hig-

den and English Miracle-Plays.-11. The Chester Plays. — 12.

The Shepherds' Play. - 13. The Modern Drama

PERIOD OF EARLY MODERN ENGLISH:

SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: CHAUCER.

1. Chaucer's English. -2. Chaucer's Parentage and Birth-Year. -

3. His Education. 4. His Training for Poetry.-5. His

Translations of "Le Roman de la Rose" and Boëthius. -6.

"The Court of Love."-7. Chaucer's Stanza.-8. "The As-

sembly of Foules."-9. "Complaint of the Black Knight."

10. Chaucer's Military Career.-11. His "Dream."- 12.

"Book of the Duchess."-13. His Political Life.-14. Sec-

ond Period of his Literary Life; "Troilus and Cressida.".

15. "House of Fame.”—16. “Legend of Good Women.”

17. His Further Political Life.-18. "The Flower and the

Leaf.”—19. "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale." — 20. His

Political Life continued; "The Astrolabe."-21. His Last

Years.-22. "Canterbury Tales.” —23. His so-called Spuri-

SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: CHAUCER'S LITE-

RARY CONTEMPORARIES.

1. John Gower; his Balades; "Speculum Meditantis;" "Vox Cla-

mantis;" "Confessio Amantis;" his Later Years; “Tripar-

tite Chronicle."-2. William Langland; "The Vision of

Piers Ploughman;” Imitations of it.—3. John Barbour;

"Bruce."—4. Sir John Mandeville; "Travels." -5. John

Wielif. —6. John Trevisa; "Translation of Higden's Poly-

chronicon."-7. Ralph Strode

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: POETS.

1. Intellectual Character of the Fifteenth Century. - 2. Develop-

ment of the English Language and of English Style; Reserved

Energies. 3. John Lydgate. - 4. Thomas

James I. of Scotland.-6. Minor Poets. -7. Ballads

THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: PROSE-WRITERS.

1. Literary Use of Latin.-2. Reginald Pecock.-3. Sir John

4. William Caxton.-5. Sir Thomas Malory. ·

6. John Tiptoft; Anthony Woodville

FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: PROSE-WRITERS.

1. Characters of the English Monarchs. -2. The New Learning

and its Chief Promoters.-3. Sir Thomas More. -4. Henry

VIII. as an Author.-5. Hugh Latimer.-6. William Tyn-

dal.-7. Other English Translators of the Bible.-S. Chroni-

clers in Latin.-9. Chroniclers in English; John Bellenden;

Robert Fabyan; Edward Hall; Lord Berners's Froissart. — 10.

John Leland.-11. Sir Thomas Elyot

FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: POETRY AND THE

1. John Skelton.-2. William Dunbar.-3. Gavin Douglas. — 4.

Sir David Lindsay of the Mount.-5. Sir Thomas Wyatt.

6. Earl of Surrey.-7. Alexander Barclay.-8. Stephen

Hawes.-9. William Roy.-10. Scottish Hymns.-11. The

Drama; the Morality-Play.-12. Skelton's " Magnificence."

-13. Lindsay's Satire on the Three Estates.-14. Rise of the

Modern Drama.-15. The First Comedy; Nicholas Udall.

16. Masques.-17. Interludes; John Heywood

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AND THEOLOGICAL BOOKS.

1. Approach of the Elizabethan Era in Literature. 2. Classical

Study. 3. Writers of Books in Latin; Sir John Cheke and

Sir Thomas Smith.-4. Other Writers in Latin.-5. George

Buchanan. - 6. The Translators from Greek, Latin, Italian,

and French; Phaer; Twyne; Golding; Turberville; Brooke;

Paynter; North; Stanihurst; Hall; Googe; Florio; Haring-

ton; Carew; Fairfax; Savile; Sylvester.-7. Religious Writ-

ings; Whittingham; the Geneva Bible; the Bishops' Bible. -

8. John Knox.-9. John Fox.-10. Stephen Gosson. - 11.

Philip Stubbes.-12. Richard Hooker

SECOND HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: ASCHAM, LYLY,

SIDNEY, AND OTHER WRITERS OF SECULAR PROSE.

1. Roger Ascham.-2. John Lyly.-3. Sir Philip Sidney. — 4.

Literary History and Criticism; John Bale; William Webbe;

George Puttenham.-5. Literary Anthologies; John Boden-

ham; Francis Meres.-6. History and Biography; George

Cavendish; Richard Grafton; John Stow; Ralph Holinshed.

-7. Books of Travel; Sir Humphrey Gilbert; Thomas Hariót;

Richard Hakluyt.

SECOND HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY : POETRY AND THE

1. Poetical Miscellanies. —2. Devotional Poetry; Parker; Stern-

hold and Hopkins.-3. Thomas Tusser.-4. Thomas Sack-

ville. —5. “A Mirror for Magistrates.”—6. Nicholas Grimald.

—7. Thomas Churchyard. - 8. George Turbervile.-9.

George Gascoigne. —10. Gabriel Harvey. — 11. Edmund Spen-

ser. 12. Fulke Greville. - 13. George Whetstone. 14.

Thomas Watson. 15. William Warner. - 16. Henry Con-

stable and Robert Southwell.-17. Sir John Davies. - 18.

First English Tragedy. -19. Translations of Latin Tragedies.

20. Development of the Drama in England; Richard Ed-

wards; Actors and Theatres.-21. Thomas Lodge.-22. An-

thony Munday.-23. The Writers of Plays.-24. George

Peele.-25. John Lyly.-26. Robert Greene.-27. Henry

Chettle.-28. Thomas Kyd.-29. Thomas Nash.-30. Chris-

FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: DRAMATIC LITERA-

TURE: SHAKESPEARE, HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND IMMEDIATE

1. English Writers in the Early Years of the Century. -2. William

Shakespeare. 3. Ben Jonson.-4. Beaumont and Fletcher.

-5. George Chapman; Thomas Heywood.-6. Thomas Mid-

dleton.-7. Thomas Dekker.-8. John Marston.-9. William

Alexander. - 10. Cyril Tourneur.-11. William Rowley.-12.

Nathaniel Field.—13. Philip Massinger; John Webster. - 14.

John Ford; James Shirley. -15. Thomas May. -16. Jasper

Mayne. 17. Thomas Randolph.-18. Sir William Dave-

FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH

CENTURY: POETRY CHIEFLY

NON-DRAMATIC.

1. Samuel Daniel. 2. Michael Drayton. -3. William Browne.

4. Giles Fletcher; Phineas Fletcher.-5. George Wither. - 6.

William Drummond.-7. Later Euphuism in Poetry. — 8.

John Donne. -9. Thomas Coryat; John Taylor.-10. Fran-

cis Quarles. 11. George Herbert. — 12. Richard Crashaw. —

13. Character Poetry; Overbury; Habington; Earle. - 14. The

Translators; George Chapman; George Sandys; Barten Holy-

day.-15. Wits, Satirists, and Song-Writers; Joseph Hall.

16. Sir John Harington.-17. Richard Corbet.-18. John

Cleveland.-19. Thomas Carew.-20. Sir John Denham.

21. Sir John Suckling.-22. William Cartwright.-23. Rich-

ard Lovelace.-24. Robert Herrick. - 25. The Position of John

Milton in Literature; His Earlier Poetry .

FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: SCHOLARS, HISTORI-

ANS, AND MEN OF SCIENCE.

1. Learned Men; James I.-2. Cotton and Bodley. -3. Robert

Burton. -4. Lancelot Andrewes.-5. James Usher.-6. John

Selden.-7. Sir Henry Wotton; John Hales.-8. Jolin Light-

foot.-9. Sir Henry Spelman. — 10. John Hayward.-11. Wil-

liam Camden.-12. Historians; John Speed. - 13. Samuel

Purchas.-14. Sir Walter Raleigh.-15. Richard Knolles;

Alexander Ross.-16. Lord Herbert of Cherbury.-17. Spottis-

woode; Calderwood.-18. Thomas Fuller.-19. Men of Sci-

ence; Francis Bacon.-20. John Napier; William Harvey. ·

21. John Wilkins.-22. Samuel Hartlib.-23. John Wallis. 337

FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: RELIGIOUS, PHILO-

SOPHICAL, AND POLITICAL WRITERS.

1. Owen Feltham.-2. Henry More.-3. Richard Sibbes. -4. Jere-

my Taylor.-5. William Prynne.-6. Peter Heylin.-7. Wil-

liam Chillingworth.—8. Philip Hunton; Sir Robert Filmer. -

9. John Gauden.-10. John Milton.

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